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An innovative great who drew from and influenced idioms from the big band era to bebop to cool jazz to electronic styles. An American Jazz Master who inspired such important figures as Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, and Herbie Hancock. Renowned for his exquisite touch, profound grace, and mercurial improvisational choices. For seven decades he's been sharing his inimitable and unique voice with jazz lovers the world over." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1550600831436-ZY9QJB98PS7W3G0EX7G7/Listen-to-the-Ahmad-Jamal-Quintet.jpg HOME - By age 10 Jamal was composing, orchestrating and performing works by Franz Liszt, exploring the music of Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, Nat Cole, Erroll Garner and a host of music notables. Jamal immersed himself fully in learning the American Song Book. He was proficient at amassing a huge repertoire and caught the attention of his senior Pittsburgh masters. Quickly hired on, he joined the AFof M (American Federation of Musicians) at 14, when the minimum age requirement was 16. At 17, he left home at the request of the George Hudson Orchestra and began touring the country. The orchestra included Clark Terry and orchestrator Ernie Wilkins. The touring schedule included major theaters throughout the United States; Notably, the historic Apollo Theater in NYC, and The Howard Theater in Washington, DC. Mr. Jamal took the Apollo stage with the orchestra at 18 years of age. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1552424239914-LZDLK7SBRW89OMFYNXNS/Ahmad-Jamal-piano_shades.jpg HOME - Jamal is a true scientist of sound: his use of space and dynamics, along with his tight, intricate arrangements, were a big influence on generations of pianists from Ramsey Lewis to Jacky Terrasson. In his autobiography, Miles Davis declared that Jamal “knocked me out with his concept of space, his lightness of touch, his understatement, and the way he phrases notes and chords and passages.”1 Davis was so enamored by Jamal’s conceptions that he recorded various compositions from the pianist’s repertoire, including “A Gal in Calico” and “Surrey with the Fringe on Top.” Davis and arranger Gil Evans even transcribed Jamal’s “New Rhumba,” a track from his 1955 LP Chamber Music of the New Jazz, note for note on their big band album, Miles Ahead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1550602746942-N7536V2456DUGQ1HR829/ahmad_jamal_trio.jpg HOME - He formed his own group in 1951 and with the help of John Hammond started his recording career with Okeh Records. That career has continued for over six decades and has resulted in one of the most successful recordings in the history of Instrumental music, "The Ahmad Jamal Trio, at The Pershing". The music was chosen by longtime fan Clint Eastwood for "The Bridges Of Madison County" and featured prominently in "The Wolf Of Wall Street". It is also used in dance companies all over the world, and continues to make musical history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1550174128664-PSS62PVAI48CUZPVBUI3/ahmad-jamal-at-the-pershing-cover-1800-ljc-1.jpg HOME - AWARD 1 Grammy Lifetime Achievement fdfdfdfd dfdfd dfdf dfdf dfdf award 1 lifetime achievement 2018 grammy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1550174129104-HX8IGMAYDB60886LUMSS/jamal_ahmad_tranquili_104b.jpg HOME https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1550174131201-Y9FWLUZP98GNVE1NK2LB/jamal_plays_jamal.jpg HOME https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1550174135268-SZ9XMEBUV5NHKV57SFDK/ahmad_jamal_bogata.jpg HOME https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1550174141147-5VT0ZWLI4PDDXTEMFMBX/ahmad-jamal-mojazz-cd.jpg HOME https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1550174146399-A37T90UHIQB7AK6DMIC0/ahmad_jamal_jamalca.jpg HOME https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1550174152928-OW7RGE4KEIQH0EOZJ2DG/ahmad_jamal_best.jpg HOME https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1550174167706-WBN4951BCDYVHW3WMMW0/jamal_ahmad_ahmadjama_105b.jpg HOME https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1552423984624-LEJU4I6RPPU9VFGX6GBN/118511292.jpg HOME - “Jamal knocked me out with his concept of space… his lightness of touch, his understatement, and the way he phrases notes and chords and passages.” - MILES DAVIS http://www.waxpoetics.com/blog/features/articles/pianist-ahmad-jamal-charted-new-popularity-jazz/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1550531297273-YBBXS3ZNKS6D57CUAX1H/Ahmad-Jamal-at-the-piano-620x664.jpg HOME - Ahmad Jamal was born on July 2nd, 1930 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh was the home of many artists known the world over for their work and contributions to both European Classical Music and American Classical Music (The term Mr. Jamal prefers for Jazz). He began playing piano at age 3, the same age Erroll Garner started. Jamal and Garner attended the same elementary and high schools. Mr. Jamal started his formal studies with noted educator, Mary Cardwell Dawson. Ms. Dawson was responsible for the first African American artists joining The Metropolitan Opera Company. When Madame Dawson moved to Washington, DC., Jamal continued his studies with James Miller, a contemporary of Earl Wild, both Pittsburgh natives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1550609335430-O0J4YGA9KQRDOHCYHU0E/ahmad_jamal_downbeat.jpeg HOME - Ahmad Jamal’s career spans seven decades covering eras of The Art Form, big band, the Parker / Gillespie era, to the electronic age. Jamal is one of the most sampled composers and recording artists in the world. He is still recording and producing artists, and has just released "Jamal Plays Jamal" on his own label, available from www.ahmadjamal.com . Ahmad Jamal has been a Steinway Artist for over a half century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1550612987488-35225DJQIGUUGBOZEF95/ahamd_jamal_collage.jpeg HOME - WHO SAMPLED JAMAL AHMAD JAMAL is one of the most sampled artists of all time. His music has influenced and been sampled by scores of artists including: Jay-Z, Common, (feat. John Legend, Kanye West) NAS, DeLaSoul, Pete Rock, J Dilla, Fat Joe, Rick Ross, J Cole, Ton Loc, Premier, Arrested Development, Ice Tea, KRS One, and many more. For a list of sampled works featuring the original piece and the new piece in which it was used, check out the the WHO SAMPLED & MIX CLOUD buttons below. YOU want a PIECE of This? Interested in Sampling the legendary AHMAD JAMAL? 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Join me as I complete my performances in France for 2019!!!!! All The Best, Ahmad Jamal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1561495699583-FF6I4W1ZA21V42CDK5D1/Ahmad_header_youtube.jpg HOME - ‘WHISPERINGS’ is one of three original compositions I am releasing on ‘BALLADES’. First recorded by the great O.C. Smith of ‘Little Green Apples’ fame, on one of my previous releases, here it is again. All The Best, AHMAD JAMAL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1577504987899-WPYI4BUXO437CBVTBIUK/Ballades_new_album.jpg HOME - B A L L A D E S DOWNBEAT Magazine Best Album of 2019 4.5 ★★★★✭ Jazz Journal 4 ★★★★ Available on CD & Limited Edition Vinyl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1567113523876-0FLGXTIBRQE0NW4UIPXM/ahmad_header_fb.jpg HOME - Dear Fans We have just completed highly successful concerts in France. Our latest recording, “Ballades”, will be released September 13, 2019. It includes my solo version of “Poinciana”, recorded between takes during our session for “Marseille”. My original version remains one of the most successful recordings in the history of instrumental music; and one of the most plagiarized. ROLLING STONE INTERNATIONAL named it as one of the the most important pieces recorded; even after 61 years! 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His distinctive use of vamps and ostinatos has made him both influential (on musicians like Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Keith Jarrett) and a bête noire (literal meaning intended) for a certain kind of critic who can’t understand jazz that’s genuinely popular or genuinely original. Jamal may have also suffered for achieving a certain perfection in his ‘50s trio with bassist Israel Crosby and drummer Vernel Fournier. This solo recording dates from 2017, when Jamal was already 87, but there’s nothing to suggest decline in his skills as he explores a program including personal standbys, enchanted ballads and scattered originals, occasionally with his regular bassist James Cammack joining in. The music can pass for sweetly decorative, but it’s also music by a man who would open a jazz club, in Chicago circa 1960, which didn’t serve alcohol and was called the Alhambra for that Andalusian encyclopedia of geometric pattern and infinite reflection, a temple of perfectly chiseled text. Sometimes the music doesn’t seem strong on shape or drama, but Jamal is a master of a dense chromaticism overlaid on beautiful tunes and he shapes adjoining, shifting segments by drawing from that chromatic wealth, moving from overlays of exotic modes suddenly to reveal the original composer’s particular and perfect harmonic sequence, as in “Poinciana”, a tune with which Jamal has undoubtedly spent vastly more time than its composer, Nat Simon, who jotted it down on a restaurant table cloth and seems to have adapted it from a Cuban folk song. The same gifts are applied to repertoire like “So Rare” (Jimmy Dorsey), “I Should Care” (Axel Stordahl-Paul Weston-Sammy Cahn), “What’s New” (Bob Haggart-Johnny Burke), “Spring Is Here” (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart) and Johnny Mandel’s “Emily”, a song so beautiful that Jamal barely deigns to exploit its melody. There’s a sense of reverie, of reflection, everywhere here. A well-known moment in Ken Burns’ Jazz is when Duke Ellington, being interviewed at a piano and playing sporadically, remarks, “This isn’t piano. This is dreaming.” That’s precisely what Jamal offers here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1550869935435-WHI7W78RUKZ1NWTBAC4B/ahmad_jamal_lifetime.jpg HOME - PRESS Ahmad Jamal November 2017 Stereophile Recording of the Month (read more...) February 2011 New York Times (read more...) 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1668615879377-0I1WJ1BCJ33XYFE5D22J/image-asset.jpeg Discography - Emerald City Nights – Live at the Penthouse 1963-1964 – Vol.1 Johnny One Note (R. Rodgers, L. Hart) Minor Adjustments (R. Evans) All of You (C. Porter) Squatty Roo (J. Hodges) Bogota (R. Evans) Lollipops & Roses ( T. Velona) Tangerine (V. Schertzinger, J. Mercer) Keep On Keeping On (R. Evans) Minor Moods (A. Jamal) But Not For Me (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1668615879377-0I1WJ1BCJ33XYFE5D22J/image-asset.jpeg Discography - Emerald City Nights – Live at the Penthouse 1963-1964 – Vol.1 Johnny One Note (R. Rodgers, L. Hart) Minor Adjustments (R. Evans) All of You (C. Porter) Squatty Roo (J. Hodges) Bogota (R. Evans) Lollipops & Roses ( T. Velona) Tangerine (V. Schertzinger, J. Mercer) Keep On Keeping On (R. Evans) Minor Moods (A. Jamal) But Not For Me (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1668615893060-OXSH4Q4YOU4LS1EBAT7C/emerald-city-nights-65-66.jpg Discography - Emerald City Nights - Live at the Penthouse 1965-1966 – Vol.2 I Didn’t Know What Time It Was (1R. Rodgers, L. Hart) Who Can I Turn To? (L. Bricusse, A. Newley) My First Love Song (L. Bricusse, A. Newley) Feeling Good (L. Bricusse, A. Newley) Concern (A. Jamal) Like Someone In Love (J. Van Heusen, J. Burke) Invitation (B. Kaper, P. Webster) Poinciana (N. Simon, B. Bernier) Whisper Not (B. Golson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1668540442522-5QX0OOBZPHJW4W8CJ4XW/ballades.jpeg Discography - Ballades Marseille Because I Love You I Should Care Poinciana Land Of Dreams What’s New So Rare Whisperings Spring Is Here / Your Story Emily https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/6373e7ba43e049416f32b46e/6373e8084330fd24062ab971/1668540424272/ Discography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1668540442511-4MUKGO8JVACSJ00CGEGC/AhmadJamal-Live-at-Marciac-226.jpeg Discography - Ahmad Jamal Live In Marciac August 5th, 2014 Sunday Afternoon The Shout Dynamo The Gypsy Strollin’ Silver All Of You Blue Moon Autumn Rain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1668540442932-IO6YV30BYYML7UI41CL1/current_album_ahmad_200x200.jpeg Discography - Saturday Morning Back To The Future I'll Always Be With You (Edna Osser, Marjorie Goetschius) Saturday Morning Edith's Cake The Line I'm In The Mood For Love (Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields) Firefly Silver I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good (Duke Ellington/Francis Webster) One (Sigidi, Welton Gite) Saturday Morning (Reprise) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1668540443055-Q050K6CK8V6HNFFU1ZER/Marseille-768x768.jpeg Discography - Marseille Marseille (Instrumental) Sometime I Feel Like A Motherless Child Pots En Verre Marseille (With Abd Al Malik) Autumn Leaves I Came To See You/You Were Not There Baalbeck Marseille (With Mina Agossi) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1668541082949-SD13QYK6GOHZ2IGW4FB1/poinciana.jpg Discography - Poinciana Poinciana (Nat Simon, Buddy Bernier) You Don't Know What Love Is (Don Raye, Gene de Paul) A Gal in Calico (Arthur Schwartz, Leo Robin) Ivy"(Hoagy Carmichael) Tater Pie (Ashby) Autumn Leaves (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer) This Can't Be Love (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) Old Devil Moon (Yip Harburg, Burton Lane) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1668541154475-48XPCPXHMBS6ZJF19JJY/a-quiet-time.jpg Discography - A Quiet Time Paris After Dark (Ahmad Jamal) The Love is Lost (Ahmad Jamal) Flight to Russia (Ahmad Jamal) Poetry (Ahmad Jamal) Hi Fly (Randy West) My Inspiration (Ahmad Jamal) After JALC (Jazz at Lincoln Center) (Ahmad Jamal) A Quiet Time (Ahmad Jamal) Tranquility (Ahmad Jamal) The Blooming Flower (Ahmad Jamal) I Hear A Rhapsody (Jack Baker, Dick Gasparre & George Fragos) https://ahmadjamal.com/complete-recordings-1 daily 0.75 2022-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1668614112230-RX89LHYQSOREINHOOMK0/Recording+Archive.jpg Complete Recordings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1668613056969-HJ3J15CEJKFAQBZYFU4P/full.jpg Complete Recordings 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https://ahmadjamal.com/press-pre-silo-updates daily 0.75 2020-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1553618910809-FNVZDKWTGNT094DP2ACN/ahmad_chicago_tribune_1.jpg PRESS pre-silo - Ahmad Jamal's Pianism Remains Wondrous Chicago Tribune https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1580405785573-NYOF61YM2T75WT13DAI0/Ballades_new_album.jpg PRESS pre-silo - BALLADES 4 ★ ★ ★ ★ Jazz Journal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1565209076806-IQG45OUY6WHLK5KQ7FZN/Ahmad%2BJAmal%2BRolling%2BStone.jpg PRESS pre-silo - Jazz Playlist: Ahmad Jamal Essential Music https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1570151385365-0KRSNFA9QXK14M4F54K8/downbeat_logo.png PRESS pre-silo - DownBeat Review: AHMAD JAMAL "Ballades" The new release out NOW https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1567640175425-P2RA73XX41QYYUT2SZAO/Ahmad_Jamal_Musiques_portrait.jpg PRESS pre-silo - Ahmad Jamal, parcours d’un pianiste à l’écart des standards de jazz Musiques Portrait https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1581536715346-YXKSWTME2NC8R7M4U2GQ/Ahmad_Jamal_ct_jazz.jpg PRESS pre-silo - AHMAD JAMAL on having a spiritual anchor, Jimmy Heath & the world beyond the piano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1577400111256-UFK8ET8S5676VDBM6ZJR/ballades_cd_ahmad_jamal.jpg PRESS pre-silo - BALLADES 4.5 ★ ★ ★ ★✭ DOWNBEAT Magazine BEST ALBUM 2019 4.5 stars https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1567636110022-KDBNQ8UE00JB350WUAMC/ahmad-jamal_studio1.jpg PRESS pre-silo - Legendary jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal to release new 2xLP, Ballades VF https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1593661233115-BBS8FUA4UYUMI45O51MW/Ahmad_Jamal_Ballades_main.jpg PRESS pre-silo - New York City Jazz Record Review Ahmad Jamal l BALLADES by Stuart Broomer Pianist Ahmad Jamal, who turns 90 this month, has worked for most of the past 70 years as the leader of very distinctive trios, first with guitar and bass, then bass and drums, sometimes supplementing them with percussion or collaborating with a horn soloist. His distinctive use of vamps and ostinatos has made him both influential (on musicians like Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Keith Jarrett) and a bête noire (literal meaning intended) for a certain kind of critic who can’t understand jazz that’s genuinely popular or genuinely original. Jamal may have also suffered for achieving a certain perfection in his ‘50s trio with bassist Israel Crosby and drummer Vernel Fournier. This solo recording dates from 2017, when Jamal was already 87, but there’s nothing to suggest decline in his skills as he explores a program including personal standbys, enchanted ballads and scattered originals, occasionally with his regular bassist James Cammack joining in. The music can pass for sweetly decorative, but it’s also music by a man who would open a jazz club, in Chicago circa 1960, which didn’t serve alcohol and was called the Alhambra for that Andalusian encyclopedia of geometric pattern and infinite reflection, a temple of perfectly chiseled text. Sometimes the music doesn’t seem strong on shape or drama, but Jamal is a master of a dense chromaticism overlaid on beautiful tunes and he shapes adjoining, shifting segments by drawing from that chromatic wealth, moving from overlays of exotic modes suddenly to reveal the original composer’s particular and perfect harmonic sequence, as in “Poinciana”, a tune with which Jamal has undoubtedly spent vastly more time than its composer, Nat Simon, who jotted it down on a restaurant table cloth and seems to have adapted it from a Cuban folk song. The same gifts are applied to repertoire like “So Rare” (Jimmy Dorsey), “I Should Care” (Axel Stordahl-Paul Weston-Sammy Cahn), “What’s New” (Bob Haggart-Johnny Burke), “Spring Is Here” (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart) and Johnny Mandel’s “Emily”, a song so beautiful that Jamal barely deigns to exploit its melody. There’s a sense of reverie, of reflection, everywhere here. A well-known moment in Ken Burns’ Jazz is when Duke Ellington, being interviewed at a piano and playing sporadically, remarks, “This isn’t piano. This is dreaming.” That’s precisely what Jamal offers here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1581031971817-KKF1MEPMVU6PXJ8JKUFL/Jason+Moran.jpg PRESS pre-silo - Steinway & Sons Artist Spotlight Jason Moran speaks about the musical prowess and influence of the legendary Ahmad Jamal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1568050503935-QDXW3M029BY60KISTKAA/Ahmad_Jamal_SFjazz2.jpg PRESS pre-silo - SFJazz kicks new season off with Ahmad Jamal and the promise of a vibrant future https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1550869935435-WHI7W78RUKZ1NWTBAC4B/ahmad_jamal_lifetime.jpg PRESS pre-silo - PRESS Ahmad Jamal November 2017 Stereophile Recording of the Month (read more...) February 2011 New York Times (read more...) Copyright © 2019 AJP, LLC All rights reserved · https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1567634858415-X844Y2KYWQ1ZFBYTJ0QM/AhmadJamal_SFJazz1.jpg PRESS pre-silo - Ahmad Jamal opens SFJAZZ season Top Bay Area Concert Picks of Week (Sept. 5-11) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1594848800509-FYRXTM1GOCUADR9MDYQK/Ahmad_Jamal_Ballades_main.jpg PRESS pre-silo - KCRW Review Ahmad Jamal: Ballades Solo Piano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1567636486963-P46BH7NSFKHDCZMMDPCH/Ahmad_jamal_datebook_sfjazz.jpg PRESS pre-silo - Highlights of SFjazz 2019 AHMAD JAMAL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1555351390716-BC76VVF0EEYQMIA5ND8Z/Ahmad_jamal_harc.JPG PRESS pre-silo https://ahmadjamal.com/discography-copy daily 0.75 2022-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1668615879377-0I1WJ1BCJ33XYFE5D22J/image-asset.jpeg DISCOGRAPHY (Copy) - Emerald City Nights – Live at the Penthouse 1963-1964 – Vol.1 Johnny One Note (R. Rodgers, L. Hart) Minor Adjustments (R. Evans) All of You (C. Porter) Squatty Roo (J. Hodges) Bogota (R. Evans) Lollipops & Roses ( T. Velona) Tangerine (V. Schertzinger, J. Mercer) Keep On Keeping On (R. Evans) Minor Moods (A. Jamal) But Not For Me (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1668615893060-OXSH4Q4YOU4LS1EBAT7C/emerald-city-nights-65-66.jpg DISCOGRAPHY (Copy) - Emerald City Nights - Live at the Penthouse 1965-1966 – Vol.2 I Didn’t Know What Time It Was (1R. Rodgers, L. Hart) Who Can I Turn To? (L. Bricusse, A. Newley) My First Love Song (L. Bricusse, A. Newley) Feeling Good (L. Bricusse, A. Newley) Concern (A. Jamal) Like Someone In Love (J. Van Heusen, J. Burke) Invitation (B. Kaper, P. Webster) Poinciana (N. Simon, B. Bernier) Whisper Not (B. Golson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1668540442522-5QX0OOBZPHJW4W8CJ4XW/ballades.jpeg DISCOGRAPHY (Copy) - Ballades Marseille Because I Love You I Should Care Poinciana Land Of Dreams What’s New So Rare Whisperings Spring Is Here / Your Story Emily https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1668540442511-4MUKGO8JVACSJ00CGEGC/AhmadJamal-Live-at-Marciac-226.jpeg DISCOGRAPHY (Copy) - Ahmad Jamal Live In Marciac August 5th, 2014 Sunday Afternoon The Shout Dynamo The Gypsy Strollin’ Silver All Of You Blue Moon Autumn Rain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1668540442932-IO6YV30BYYML7UI41CL1/current_album_ahmad_200x200.jpeg DISCOGRAPHY (Copy) - Saturday Morning Back To The Future I'll Always Be With You (Edna Osser, Marjorie Goetschius) Saturday Morning Edith's Cake The Line I'm In The Mood For Love (Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields) Firefly Silver I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good (Duke Ellington/Francis Webster) One (Sigidi, Welton Gite) Saturday Morning (Reprise) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1668540443055-Q050K6CK8V6HNFFU1ZER/Marseille-768x768.jpeg DISCOGRAPHY (Copy) - Marseille Marseille (Instrumental) Sometime I Feel Like A Motherless Child Pots En Verre Marseille (With Abd Al Malik) Autumn Leaves I Came To See You/You Were Not There Baalbeck Marseille (With Mina Agossi) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1668541082949-SD13QYK6GOHZ2IGW4FB1/poinciana.jpg DISCOGRAPHY (Copy) - Poinciana Poinciana (Nat Simon, Buddy Bernier) You Don't Know What Love Is (Don Raye, Gene de Paul) A Gal in Calico (Arthur Schwartz, Leo Robin) Ivy"(Hoagy Carmichael) Tater Pie (Ashby) Autumn Leaves (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer) This Can't Be Love (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) Old Devil Moon (Yip Harburg, Burton Lane) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1668541154475-48XPCPXHMBS6ZJF19JJY/a-quiet-time.jpg DISCOGRAPHY (Copy) - A Quiet Time Paris After Dark (Ahmad Jamal) The Love is Lost (Ahmad Jamal) Flight to Russia (Ahmad Jamal) Poetry (Ahmad Jamal) Hi Fly (Randy West) My Inspiration (Ahmad Jamal) After JALC (Jazz at Lincoln Center) (Ahmad Jamal) A Quiet Time (Ahmad Jamal) Tranquility (Ahmad Jamal) The Blooming Flower (Ahmad Jamal) I Hear A Rhapsody (Jack Baker, Dick Gasparre & George Fragos) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1551902843306-N55LVVR4SH1BCIKJLTNZ/water_record.gif DISCOGRAPHY (Copy) https://ahmadjamal.com/new-products daily 0.75 2020-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1566349495388-UPOWDI4MLYMQ9FUDG25V/Ahmad_Jamal_Saturday_Morning_Vinyl.jpg LIMITED EDITION VINYL SET https://ahmadjamal.com/new-products/ballades-signed-cd monthly 0.5 2023-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c53860e4d8711ab5ea417b5/1577397034129-SPEWU07SQBEHBO6DGVVZ/ballades_cd_ahmad_jamal.jpg LIMITED EDITION VINYL SET - BALLADES . The New Release . Signed CD